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5 Dec 2025
🚨Delighted to announce that Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons by Robert Dickins (@cofgodas) is out now!
It tells the story of how these fungi entered British consciousness, the bemushroomed Britons who took them, and how the authorities policed them 🧵
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"I’ve written Trip Sitting to assist people who intend to hold psychedelic space, particularly those just beginning this work, though I hope seasoned practitioners will also find valuable ideas in the text." - @JulianVayne
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Apr 8
RT @PeterSjostedtH: The Return of Metaphysics
– new interview:
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RT @PeterSjostedtH: ‘Mind-at-Large: Etymology & Cosmology’ – My own talk on 15 April for the MALP online conference.
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Mar 25
Interview with @cofgodas about magic mushrooms in Britain over at the Roots and All podcast...
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Psilocybe Pickers tells the story of how these psychedelic fungi entered British consciousness in the twentieth century, the bemushroomed Britons who took them on as part of their culture, and how the authorities tried to police them.
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Feb 16
❤️📖➡️ "Holding space is an ancient art that takes many forms. The approaches I describe here are rooted in the wisdom of ancient cultures and informed by the latest scientific research" - author @JulianVayne
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Feb 11
A lovely review by @MikeFiorito3 of Psilocybe Pickers: A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons... 🙏❤️📖
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Feb 9
Putting the psi back into psilocybin - On psychedelomancy & exceptional psychedelic experiences
Latest Substack, exploring the paranormal experiences of the original pioneers of psychedelic science in the 50s & 60s on their initial altered excursions!
tinyurl.com/2mvw7w7d
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Feb 3
Wahoo! 🥳 The next Breaking Convention conference is back this May in London - and will no doubt be another fabulous day of psychedelic talks & community. Check out @breakingcon for more information and to get some tickets ❤️🙏⬇️
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Jan 27
"At some point during his tenure with Stark in Paris, Kemp created what was to become the infamous ‘brown acid’ distributed at the 1969 Woodstock festival..." - Andy Roberts
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Jan 15
For Bristol folk and beyond, author Robert Dickins is giving a talk next month on the history of Bemushroomed Britons for The Psychedelic Society... come along!
dandelion.events/e/y0p4g
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The real problem of AI consciousness is that you can’t know either way. I suggested a couple of ideas for an AI consciousness test though. @NoemaMag @anilkseth @berggruenInst @psypre psychedelicpress.substack.co…
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Jan 14
The eBook of Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by @JulianVayne is out now!
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GGS1XZLM/
12 Sep 2025
Wahoo! Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding P£ychedelic Space by @JulianVayne is out today 🥳
Trip Sitting is your essential guide for supporting safe, meaningful p£ychedelic journeys.
And includes a fabulous Foreword by @BellevueDoc
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Jan 11
Following on from my interview with @matthabusby for DoubleBlind last week I've further extended some of those insights into the highly speculative psychedelic origins of (or contributions to) language evolution into a new Substack post - davidluke543044.substack.com…
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Jan 8
Some lovely reviews of Trip Sitting: The Art and Science of Holding Psychedelic Space by Julian Vayne starting to appear in the wild....
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Our review of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by @edgecentral ⬇️
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Jan 3
In Microcosms: Sacred Plants of the Americas, Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White have given us a glimpse into the inner botanical workings of some of world’s most enigmatic plants.
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